Trump’s immigration policies attacked Mamdani’s presser on Manhattan mass fire

At his first press conference since the mass shooting in New York, Democratic candidate, Zohran Mamdani, criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policies while saying that he was ready for customs of customs returning to the United States since his African vacation.

Speaking with journalists on Wednesday afternoon, two days after a deadly shooting killed four, including a police officer, Mamdani answered questions about his wedding trip to his place of birth in Uganda.

Mamdani said that he “had piloted the commercial economy in both directions and that I had no problems going through customs, although I was prepared for the potential of these problems.”

“It is a sad reality to live in the United States of our president,” added Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani dodges questions about mass shots after returning from vacation in Africa

During his first speech since the mass shooting in New York, Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policies while saying that he was ready for customs problems to return to the United States since his African vacation. (AP photo / Richard Drew and Brandon Bell)

According to Mamdani, after his return to New York in Uganda, he traveled directly to visit the family of the NYPD officer, 36, Didarul Islam, who was killed during the mass shooting.

He said he had called the family in advance to “ask if it was something I could do”.

“They welcomed me in their house. They refused to let me go until I have breakfast with them,” he said, adding, “they embody so much of what makes this city the one we love.”

Mamdani said he visited the family for almost an hour. He pointed out how Islam and one of the other victims of the shooting, the security guard Aland Etienne, were both immigrants.

“It is not lost for me that the officer Islam and Aland Etienne are immigrants who came to the city in the hope of a better life, immigrants whose own sacrifices allowed members of their own family to have a better life,” he said.

Mamdani pays tribute to New York shooting victims

NYPD makes condolences to police officer Didarul Islam. (Getty Images)

On Monday, a lonely shooter, later identified as Shane Tamura, entered an office building in Midtown Manhattan and opened fire, killing four people before turning the pistol on himself.

The four people killed during the shooting were identified as the NYPD officer Didarul Islam, the management of Blackstone Wesley Lepatner, the security guard Aland Etienne and Julia Hyman, associated with Rudin Management.

The motif of the shooting remains vague, but the shooter would have had a grievance with the NFL, blaming football for its apparent problems with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a side effect of the repeated heads.

Mamdani was on vacation for her wedding at the time of filming. After the tragedy, its previous criticisms on the NYPD and 2020 to undo the police were renovated. It was also examined for a more recent commitment to “dissolve” a special force of the NYPD known as the strategic response group, which is responsible for riots, civil disorders and fire.

Wednesday’s press conference was the first opportunity for journalists to question Mamdani about these controversial statements.

Yankees takes a moment of silence before the first launch against the Rays in honor of the fell nypd officer

A vision of the scene following the mass shooting attack in Manhattan, New York, United States on July 29, 2025. According to the first reports, four people, including NYPD police officer Didarul Islam, were killed and a person was injured. (Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images)

In response to a question on a 2020 position mocking a police officer for having had a break in his car, Mamdani said: “To be very clear, because I was during this campaign. I do not finance the police. I do not run to finance the police.”

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He said that the position “is out of step of the way I don’t only see the police, the immense work they do in this city, but also the gravity with which we must deal with this work and the difficulties that accompany this work”.

During the press conference, Mamdani also responded to the threats he has received since he became a candidate for the town hall.

“My life is unfortunately not the one she was. There are many more threats,” he said. “And with this, precautions that I would have liked not to have to take. Although these are also precautions for which I am extremely grateful, especially in the example of the detail of the NYPD that I have here in New York.”